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setting this up is profoundly laborious, not to mention risky considering I have to enter my spotify username/password in a config file somewhere...
by rambojohnson 7y ago
setting this up is profoundly laborious, not to mention risky considering I have to enter my spotify username/password in a config file somewhere...
- jacobobryant 7y agoYeah, sorry about that. This prototype was optimized for development speed; I'm working on mobile apps now which will be easier to use. I'm not positive if the plaintext username/password is strictly required, but it's in docs from the spotify plugin's author (https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify#configuration https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify#configuration). I think it may be related to the fact that a native integration with spotify is only possible through a lib that spotify abandoned a while ago, so it's a bit of a hack.
- kingosticks 7y agoSpotify's closed-sourced abondon-ware libspotify library requires the username and password. I'm not convinced by the argument that storing those details in a suitably protected text file is particularly risky but I appreciate others may have other ideas. You can actually read the password from the system keyring but we don't document that very well since it's more of a hack (if I remember correctly).